a. Ninety-four Years of rEditorial Freedom : ' .e LIE 41 IE41aIIQ Ra . Sunny and warmer with a high of 25-28 degrees. o. XCIV-No. 107 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 8, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Reagan pulls Marines offshore omputer erger ears final ecision By TRACEY MILLER The computer science departments in he engineering college and LSA eceived the go-ahead from the Univer- ity executive officers yesterday for a erger the departments have been lanning since October. The University regents are expected o give the plan final approval at their eeting next week. BOTH THE Colleges of Engineering nd LSA agreed "in principle" to the erger last October, as a way to con- olidate computer instruction at the niversity. After working on the etails during fall term, a. committee omprised of deans from both schools nd two representative professors ubmitted a report last week to Billy rye, vice president for academic af- airs and provosts. Under the proposed plan, LSA's epartment of Communication and omputer Science (CCS) will be com- bined with the engineering college's electrical and computer engineering department to form a new unit, elec- trical engineering and computer scien- ee, within the engineering college. The plan reconmends that these changes begin this July. PROF. GIDEON Frieder, who currently heads LSA's computer depar- ment, is slated to chair the new depar- ment, said Henry Pollack, an LSA ean on the merger committee. Pollack called the plan a "suitable reaty" between the two schools. "We are trying to make the transition as ransparent as possible for the LSA tudent," he said. Although the department would be Some Americans flee Beirut POINT MUGU, Calif. (AP)-President Reagan yesterday ordered the gradual withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Beirut International Airport to ships of- fshore while approving wider action by American warships and vowing to "stand firm" against the enemies of Lebanon's government. Reagan gave the U.S. fleet off Beirut free rein to provide naval fire and air support against any units shooting into greater Beirut from Syrian-controlled Lebanese territory, as well as against any units directly attacking American or multinational force personnel and facilities. The statement came hours after Marine helicopters evacuated non- essential American embassy personnel and their dependents from Beirut in what the State Department called a "prudent response" to fighting in the embattled city. The statement was issued as Reagan began a five-day California vacation. THE MARINES have come under fire recently during sharply intensified combat between the Lebanese factions. Reagan said he has directed Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to prepare a plan for the redeployment of Marines from the airport to the ships. . "This redeployment will begin shor- tly and proceed in stages. U.S. military will remain on the ground in Lebanon for training and equipping the Lebanese army and protecting our remaining personnel," Reagan said. The use of aircraft to directly hit Syrian positions would be "up to the military. They will use, whatever is necessary to hit back at batteries that are firing into Beirut." A senior administration official, who spoke on eondition he not be-identified by name, said the administration hopes the initial 'redeployment could begin before the end of the month, perhaps sooner, and would involve about 500 men. REAGAN SAID naval andf Marine forces offshore "will stand ready as before to provide support for the protection of American and other multinational force personnel in See MARINES, Page 2 AP Photo A Lebanese rescue worker runs through the rubble caused by heavy fighting between the Lebanese Army and leftist gunmen in Beirut yesterday. As a result of that fighting, President Reagan ordered the 1,600 Marines in Beirut with- drawn to ships offshore. Slave trial defendant denies abuse By CAROLINE MULLER The son of a Chelsea farming couple charged with holding two men as slaves for more than ten years denied claims yesterday that he physically abused the two farmhands. In an emotional testimony, John Kozminski, 30, son of Ike and Margarethe Kozminski, said he loved both men and that they were free to leave, the farm whenever they chose. U.S. DISTRICT Judge Charles Joiner called a 10-minute recess after Kozminski broke down in tears while describing his relationship with the two alleged slaves, Louis Molitoris, 59, and Robert Fulmer, 57. "I've never physically hit Louie. I've never laid a hand on Bob," Kozminski said. "Louis just needed someone to listen to him sometimes," said Kozminski in a choked voice. "Sometimes he'd talk about the soap operas. Some people thought that was funny." KOZMINSKI described an incident when Molitoris helped him remove a splinter from his hand. Kozrminski also told the 12-member jury yesterday he and Molitoris worked together to revive a calf that was choking. Kozminski and his parents are each charged with one count of violating the farmhand's civil rights and two counts of involuntary servitude. According to U.S. District Attorney Virginia Morgan, the two men are also mentally retar- ded. FULMER WAS an "uncle-type" figure, Koz- minski said. "He gave me my first cigarette. I felt there was a certain type of (mutual) respect (between Fulmer and I)," he said. Kozminski said that Fulmer had described the farm at 4768 Peckins Rd. in Chelsea as his home and that he "planned on staying here for the rest of his life.' Witnesses testifying last week in the state's first slavery case in more than 60 years said that the two farmhands were physically and verbally abused by the Kozminskis and forced to live un- der unsanitary conditions. THEY SAID Fulmer and Molitoris lived in a dilapidated old trailer, had inadequate clothing, and survived on rotten food such as moldy bread. One witness said he saw maggots in the far- mhands' frying pan. Kozminski said yesterday, however, that the men were given 10 to 14 bags of groceries each -week. "I never saw moldy bread going in (Fulmer and Molitoris') door, (but I saw it going out," said Kozminski. He added that "they had as much clothing available to thehia s I had to myself." KOZMINSKI said the trailer wps in poor con- dition because Fulmer and Molitoris didn't take care of it. "Occasionally the place was just a pig sty and you had to say something to them." See SLAVE, Page 3 L See COMPUT TER, Page 2 MSA letter calls student conduct By MARCY FLEISHER The Michigan Student Assembly last night unanimously endorsed an open letter to the University community criticizing the University's plan to create a code of non-academic conduct for students. The proposed code, which University officials are now putting the final touches on before bringing it to the regents this spring, would allow the University to punish students for van- dalism, sexual assault, arson, theft, and possibly some forms of civil disobedience among other things. The code would also include a University judicial system for enforcement. The letter MSA endorsed vehemently attacks the proposed code. ."THE PROPOSED Student Code of Nonacademic Conduct is abhorrent," the letter said. This code is unaccep- table at the University of Michigan, for it displays disrespect toward the mem- bers of the University community it is here to serve - the students,". code 'abhorrent' Written by MSA President Mary Rowland and the heads of several college student governments, the letter objects to the code on several grounds, saying it would: " places some students in double jeopardy by allowing the University to punish students for violations which also may be brought to civil or criminal court; * treat students unequally compared to the rest of the University community, because it does not apply to professors, administrators, or staff members; * deny students the right to a trial by a jury of peers, because the proposed judicial system would be run by ad- ministrators and professors; and * allow too much flexibility in matching punishments with violations, and provide academic-related punishmen- ts, such as suspension or expulsion, for non-academic violations. Before the assembly voted on the let- ter, Hanon Kolko, a second-year law student, told members that the code could be used to "stifle legitimate protest." Kolko said the code also gives the University excessive discretion in choosing what punishments to apply to violators. "(The code) puts people who didn't do anything dangerous in the position to be kicked out," he said. "It gives the university power to punish anything they want, anyway they want." Rowland said the letter is currently circulating among the leaders of in- dividual college student governments for endorsement. When all those groups have had a chance to consider the letter, it will be published as an open letter to everyone at the Univer- sity. Currently the code, which has been in the planning for nearly three years, is undergoing final revisions and will probably go to the regents for con- sideration in either March or April. Olym pic arches Daily Photo by REBECCA KNIGHT Olympic track hopefuls melanie Weaver (left) and Sue Foster (right), both University graduates, hold up the Mc- Donald's Olympic flag with some help from the Pioneer High School Pep Band yesterday. The flags were raised at Mc- Donald's restaurants all across America, the same day the Olympic flame was lit at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia to begin the winter games. ODAY- Clipped wings A GERMAN AVIATOR has been named "Bonehead of the Year" for his utter failure to perfect an airplane the group said. He was unable to raise enough money to perfect his craft, "but true to the bonehead dreamer in all of us, Jacob Friedrich Brodbeck was the first man to achieve sustained controlled flight of a powered aircraft, 38 years before Wilbur and Orville Wright got off the ground," the club said. Brodbeck's great grandson, Blanco County Sheriff Sherman Brodbeck, will accept the award. art work of the students," Zoss said. "It was depressing, especially from their viewpoint. They don't even come up to the bottom of the windows," she said. At first Zoss thought the workmen had only boarded up broken panes, until she took a closer look and realized that the lower halves of all the windows on the first floor of the three-story school were painted black. "I couldn't imagine why anyone would do that. It was a little extreme," she said. "The only thing I was told was that it was an attempt to remove the graffiti. I wouldn't say there was that much. Just people's initials, Also on this date in history: " 1965 - The University announced that junior women would be allowed to live off-campus, however they could only move into University-approved housing, and juniors under 21 had to present written permission from their parents to leave the dormitories. " 1971 - Michael Knox, a member of a faculty-student committee on classified research, said the committee had approved research projects which were "making a significant contribution to the war technology which is I. I. i